Cultural Stressors and the Hopelessness Model of Depressive Symptoms in Latino Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Stein, Gabriela L.; Gonzalez, Laura M.; Huq, Nadia
Titel	Cultural Stressors and the Hopelessness Model of Depressive Symptoms in Latino Adolescents
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41 (2012) 10, S.1339-1349 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-012-9765-8
Schlagwörter	Hispanic Americans; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Stress Variables; Cultural Influences; Adolescents; Mexican Americans; Measures (Individuals); Parent Child Relationship; Conflict; Economic Factors; Peer Acceptance; Racial Bias; Acculturation; Prediction; Risk; Attribution Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Messdaten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Konflikt; Ökonomischer Faktor; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Akkulturation; Vorhersage; Risiko
Abstract	Depressive symptoms in Latino youth have been related to both culturally-universal and culturally-based stressors. However, few studies have examined the unique contributions of culturally-based stressors above and beyond other types of stressors. Moreover, no past studies with Latinos have examined the role of culturally-based stressors within a hopelessness model of depressive symptoms, a cognitive model with the strongest empirical support in adolescence. The current study examined these issues in a sample of 171 Latino adolescents (7th-10th grades; mean age = 14; 46% male). The Latino adolescents were primarily Mexican-American (78%) and born in the United States (60%). Students completed measures during a school period on their experiences of parent-child conflict, economic stress, discrimination from peers, and acculturative stress as well as depressive symptoms and attributional style. The results indicated that culturally-based stressors (e.g., acculturative stress and discrimination) predicted greater depressive symptoms even when controlling for culturally-universal stressors (e.g., parent-child conflict, economic stress). Moreover, a negative attributional style moderated the relationship between culturally-universal stressors and depressive symptoms, but this was not the case for culturally-based stressors. Culturally-based stressors play an important role in depressive symptoms among Latino youth. These stressors predicted greater symptomatology even when controlling for other types of stressors and a negative attributional style. These findings suggest that there may be other cognitive risk factors associated with culturally-based stressors. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10